Viruses & Spyware

The internet these days is minefield of virus's and spyware, with Music and file sharing, MP3 downloading, readily available to the younger computer user PC's are more at risk than ever. This doesnt mean you should be scared of using these facilities just be prepared and take the right precautions.

If you think your PC is infected do not ignore it, Call us immediately as a virus can cause untold damage if left unchecked.

Cyber Site will remove virus's and spyware etc and in 99% of all cases undo the damage it has caused, we will then advise you on the best Virus and spyware software to use and install it for you if you wish, Virus software should always be installed on a clean PC.

If your PC is running slowly and you have lots of annoying popups then you have spyware, once again it is not advisable to leave it..

 

Trojan:

Named after the wooden horse of Troy, the term " trojan" describes a program with a hidden yet deliberate and undesired action. It may purport to be a game, or a useful utility, or some other software application. And to disguise its hidden, malicious intent a trojan may indeed include some or all of the functions of the software it purports to be. But the trojan also has a hidden " payload" which can be almost anything - such as deleting data, interfering with normal system operation, or capturing keystrokes and relaying them to a remote machine.

 

 

Virus:

The simple definition is that " a virus is a replicating trojan" . To be more precise, a computer virus is executable code that, when run by someone, infects or attaches itself to other executable code in a computer in an effort to reproduce itself. There may be no other payload (in other words, the virus may simply spread from disk to disk, program to program, computer to computer, etc - but not do anything undesired or destructive other than that).

 

 

Worm:

A worm is " self-propagating malicious code" . It may be a virus that is able to propagate itself to other computers by transferring itself from an infected system to other target systems by email or through network shares, or it may be code that is memory resident and which does not alter executable code stored on the hard disks of infected systems but rather spreads by other means such as exploiting buffer overflows. Apart from the ability to propagate, worms may of course include additional " payloads".

 

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